You need TFA - great album
On The Beach is also great because it reminds us of a time when Neil gave a shit about writing lyrics.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
TGA is awesome and raucous and has Don't Be Denied on it
― skeevy wonder (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Back in March I was at Flea Market (to work a car show--Neil would approve) and was hitting up one of the record stores. I'd been browsing for awhile, not really finding much to be interested in when the owner comes up to me and drops about 50 lps into my empty arms, telling me he'd just got 'em in and that I'd probably find what I was looking for in there. Lo and behold, about halfway in, I find...Ralf and Florian by Kraftwerk. Also, just a few records later, a nice clean Time Fades Away w/the poster to replace my hissy, poster-less and falling apart sleeved copy at home. Together they were mine for $10.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if Homegrown is just as good as On The Beach. time will tell..i hope...
― nostormo, Sunday, 21 October 2012 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
MAN, Ralf and Florian and Time Fades Away both need to be in my collection someday. I don't go out of my way to buy records too often, so I hope I get a similar opportunity at some point -- $10!
― grandavis, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
I came home from the lab tonight to find Time Fades Away on my doorstep (thanks again clemenza!). I'm listening to it now (on headphones since everyone is asleep). After the first side, I can tell that Yonder Stands The Sinner -> LA -> Love In Mind is gonna be a favorite run on side 1. I'd heard Love In Mind on Massey Hall, but wow at the other two, which I am hearing for the first time. Side 2 is awesome the whole way through. That riff in Last Dance is insane! "No, No, No." God this is awesome...and raucous, as Drugs says above.
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
On second listen, the title track is great, too. I think that I prefer the Massey Hall "Journey Through the Past," however.
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
John Barbata's drums are just nuts on TFA the song.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah it's kinda funny, over time neil lost interest in writing lyrics and dylan lost interest in writing music
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
(not that i don't like stuff they've both done recently, but you know what i mean)
maybe it's just because i'm not a big neil young fan in general, but the most salient characteristic of this album to me is its complete unremarkableness. it seems neither terrible nor great. i can never remember a single song 5 minutes later.
let the torrent of personal abuse and namecalling begin.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
naw man neil is good vibes, i recommend listening to this around dusk, on vinyl, beer or other drink of choice in hand. cool if it's water or soda. weed? maybe. not necessary.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
poop head
FOR THE TURNSTILES!!!!
*lights self on fire*
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
i mean... you have a right to your opinion... and taste is taste... but... /cries/.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
it's cool if you don't like it as long as you are ok with not being a good person.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
[just kidding, it's ok]
fuck you Poliopolice, FUCK YOU
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
Self-professed non-fan declares Neil Young album "neither terrible nor great." Stay tuned to find out the album's "most salient characteristic."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
God this is awesome...and raucous, as Drugs says above.
If there was a box of that tour -- like Miles' Cellar Door or Plugged Nickel boxes -- I'd lap that shit up.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
who yells "LAST DANCE!" at the end of the song Last Dance? Lil Jon?
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
Love that.LAST DAAANCE!!Don't Be Denied is a pretty singular song in Neil's catalog, no?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
I like to think "Hitchhiker" is "Don't Be Denied Pt. II: The Drug Years".
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
man, the next time i really want a record, i should pop onto a neil young thread, call it a white whale, and see if someone magically offers to send it to me! lucky duck.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
Top ten album of all time for me. Completely slays me
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
guess this is the point where I once more lament that the remastered HDCD of time fades away was never released
thank god it leaked, sounds fantastic
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/timefadesaway.png
― space dokken (Edward III), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otmfm
― o. mane (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you read this somewhere and forgot it, this is almost a direct quote from a Neil interview. let me see if I can dig this up.
― o. mane (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
didn't take long at all:
Q. But Don't Be Denied for example is one of your best songs. It's also your most openly autobiographical...
A. Yeah, certainly. It's one of them, anyway. The other one's called Hitch-Hiker. It's a contemporary of Don't Be Denied from 1975 and it was all about all the different drugs that I took. I started at the beginning and ran right through my years of drug usage up to that time, drawing parallels with other stuff. It's a very interesting song (laughs). Eventually I mutated it partly into a song called Like An Inca [on Trans]. Only the chorus lived, though all the verses were gone. Hitch-Hiker is now probably bootlegged 'cos I played it six or seven times on some acoustic tour I did in the '90s.
http://thrasherswheat.org/tfa/mojointerview1295pt2.htm
(interview from 95 btw)
― o. mane (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
direct quote is overstating my case, my bad.
― o. mane (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:42 (eleven years ago) link
La Lechera: if you've been searching for a copy of Hall & Oates' Ooh Yeah! for most of your life, your ship has just come in.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
i have an extra copy of rumours as well
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
Will trade you for one Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, drunkenly purchased one night for $0.25. "You don't understand! Harold Faltermeyer! Harold..."FUCKING"... Faltermeyer. HUGE influence on dance music today. This is a fucking FIND."
― how's life, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Happy halloween to me! I have a spare copy of Liza Minelli THE SINGER that someone must want
Anyone? http://images.hhv.de/catalog/detail_big/00093/93344.jpg
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
so is you're so vain on there twice? I'm really confused.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Just once, toward the end of side 1. She was just really excited about singing it so it's on the cover twice.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
one of the versions of You're So Vain is with a full orchestra and a fuzzbox on her vocals, the other rendition is nearly a capella, accompanied only by a faint, authentic lyre
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
First one not too far off - there are cartoonishly cheesy horns and some sick drumming. Segues awkwardly into Where Is the Love To really keep the good times flowing.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'll throw in The Sterile Cuckoo sdtk if someone sends me a copy of Ragged Glory.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
thread got awesome
― space dokken (Edward III), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
liza is cuuuute on that album cover. did she ever cover neil young? he was pretty into her momhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9AV7C7EX8
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
She does look super cute on the cover, that's why I posted the photo! She was cute in Sterile Cuckoo too -- one of the original MPDGs iirc. I don't know how Neil Young would feel about that, he seems like he likes his women a little more down to earth, but what do I know. http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BOTcxNzk4MTEzMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjIwMjU2._V1._SX450_SY363_.jpg
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
She did work with Alice Cooper
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
she was dating scorsese at the time of the last waltz, maybe she was backstage? important things to know.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
We're getting off topic but I love her hair and moves here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry to add to the somewhat surreal derailment--started by me, perhaps...--but I find Liza much more attractive in The Sterile Cuckoo than in Cabaret.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Guys if this thread gets derailed where will we be able to talk about Neil Young?
― trebek sajak iii (cwkiii), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
liza on the beachhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XeWEPV5kBvQ/S17xCqP7XtI/AAAAAAAAFYk/NKIVzhwLwbc/s400/Liza+Minelli+bathing+suit.bmp
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
she is 4'4"
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
not that there's anything wrong with that
"Pocahontas, Liza Minelli and me"
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link